SSUSH18 The student will describe Franklin Roosevelt

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SSUSH18 The student will describe Franklin
Roosevelts New Deal as a response to the
depression and compare the ways governmental
programs aided those in need
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What was the New Deal?

• A comprehensive series of social economic
  programs enacted during the Great Depression by
  the FDR Administration that have become part of
  our everyday lives today.

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a. Describe the creation of the Tennessee Valley
Authority as a works program and as an effort to
control the environment
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• In 1933 the Tennessee Valley Authority (TVA) was
  created as part of Roosevelts New Deal to
  control floods and bring electricity to rural
  America
• The TVA generated over 40,000 jobs building dams,
  power plants, roads and miles of wiring
• What do workers do with
• the money they earn?
• How could the TVA help
• the economy?

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b. Explain the Wagner Act and the rise of
industrial unionism

• The Wagner Act gave workers more power through
  the right to form unions
• Formed in 1935 the Wagner Act
• guaranteed workers the right to unionize
• allowed for collective bargaining
• allowed for binding arbitration
• formed the National Labor Relations Board to
  monitor labor issues

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c. Explain the passage of the Social Security Act
as a part of the second New Deal

• After two years of New Deal programs, the
  American economy showed little sign of recovery
• To try and speed up the recovery process,
  Roosevelt launched his second New Deal

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Social Security Act

• Passed in 1935 the Social Security Act provided
• retirement benefits
• unemployment insurance
• welfare payments to the needy

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d. Identify Eleanor Roosevelt as a symbol of
social progress and womens activism

• Eleanor Roosevelt spoke to many women and African
  American groups and relayed their plight to the
  President
• Though little progress in race relations was
  made, Eleanor helped promote minority and
  womens rights
• She was the eyes and ears for FDR.

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e. Identify the political challenges to
Roosevelts domestic and international
leadership include the role of Huey Long, the
court packing bill, and the Neutrality Act

• Roosevelts New Deal Programs had opponents
  including Huey Long, a Senator from Louisiana
• Started Share the Wealth clubs believing that
  the government should take money from the rich
  and give it to the poor
• Wanted to run for President
• Was assassinated 1935

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Court Packing

• The Supreme Court had struck down several of
  Roosevelts programs declaring them
  unconstitutional
• In an attempt to control the Supreme Court,
  Roosevelt sent Congress a bill which would allow
  him to increase the number of justices on the
  court
• This would allow Roosevelt to appoint justices
  who were friendly towards his New Deal policies

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Court Packing

• After much protest by Congress and many
  Americans, the bill was killed in the Senate
• Roosevelt over estimated his power

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Neutrality Act

• As not only the U.S., but the world struggled to
  emerge from the economic depression, military
  dictators in several countries began to gain
  power (Germany, Italy, Japan, Russia).
• Worried that the U.S. would be drawn into another
  European war, Congress passed the Neutrality Act
  which made it illegal for Americans to sell
  weapons to any country at war and that goods
  purchased from the U.S. had to be paid in cash
  and transported on non U.S. ships
• Why would Congress insist
• on goods being transported
• on non U.S. ships?